Comments on: Hydrogenated Oil : The Hidden Killer

By: Darlene

Darlene — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:19:14 +0000

There is very little left to eat. Especially when you consider how GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) are everywhere! Since GMO crops include corn, soy, beet sugar, and other, if you want to avoid these potentially hazardous “mutant” foods, you also have the check labels for corn sweeteners, corn oils, corn starch, etc……. High fructose corn sweeteners are in everything!!! No wonder so many kids are ADD. This explains peanut allergies! When I was a kid, everyone ate PB&J. Now they are banned from schools!!!!!

By: Nomi

Nomi — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:52:08 +0000

Those wraps are disgusting! They taste like chemicals.

By: gypsy

gypsy — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:48:52 +0000

There is always the option to buy real, live foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, dry beans (not canned) you get the idea food our grandparents and great grandparents used to eat, the kind of stuff that grows in the garden.

By: martha

martha — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:20:54 +0000

Pretty soon we would not be able to eat anything at all.
What if left in the market to buy that does not contain
all this horrendous products…..even labels are a total
misrepresentation of the truth….

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:36:36 +0000

Those wraps look disgusting.

By: william

william — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:54:13 +0000

Our family started eating a product called MISSION WRAPS. We bought them from Wal-Mart. On the cover it says 0g Trans Fat, No Lard, No Cholesterol. But when I ate them my stomach felt so full, and I was not hungry for 4 to 6 hours later. Finally today I looked on the back and I saw that they have hydrogenated Soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oil, not to mentions monoglycerides. I became furious. Under the definition on Trans Fat in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says: Most trans fats consumed today are industrially created by partially hydrogenating plant oils â€” a process developed in the early 1900s and first commercialized as Crisco in 1911. Unlike other dietary fats, trans fats are neither required nor beneficial for health. Eating trans fats increases the risk of coronary heart disease. Trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils are generally considered to be more of a health risk than those occurring naturally.

So by definition of Trans fat, are they lying by saying 0g Trans Fats on the cover?

Please advise,
Bill Sanford
WHSanford@aol.com

check them out at: http://www.missionfoodsfsc.com/products/wraps/

these are the ingredients: http://www.missionfoodsfsc.com/nutrition_data.asp

Ingredients: Ingredients: Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Vegetable Shortening (Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Seasoning [Salt, Maltodextrin, Jalapeno Pepper, Onion, Yeast Extract, Garlic, Citric Acid, Modified Corn Starch, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed and Soybean Oil, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Artificial Color (FD&C Yellow #5, FD&C Yellow #6)], Contains 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Sulfate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate and/or Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Calcium Sulfate), Dough Conditioners (Fumaric Acid, Sodium Metabisulfite), Calcium Propionate and Sorbic Acid (To Preserve Freshness).

the ingredients above are different than the ones on my package which names a considerable amount of more harmful chemicals like monoglycerides.

I am very upset with these people to say the least.

By: tanya

tanya — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:49:48 +0000

John is totally right. Only partially hydrogenated oils can be trans – fully hydrogenated oils have no double bonds, hence cannot be trans. This is a VERY important distinction. Also, fully hydrogenated oils are not unnatural – that would be the same compounds found in saturated fats.

By: John

John — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:44:32 +0000

There’s another mistake, I believe. Just because something has hydrogenated oil does not necessarily mean it has trans-unsaturation. Hydrogenation is used to convert double or triple bonds into single bonds by adding hydrogen accross the bond.

Trans fats are alkenes with trans configurations, which only results in specific hydrogenated cases. For instance, when Na/NH3 is used to reduce an alkyne to a trans alkene.

By: John

John — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:38:32 +0000

As an organic chemist, I wanted to note that it is not necessary to use a metal catalyst, such as platinum, to hydrogenate an alkene or alkyne.

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